Marketing Manager - Media

IOP Publishing are recruiting for a creative and commercially-focused Marketing Manager - Media who will be responsible for developing and delivering marketing strategies for the products within the Media Group. This is a fixed-term contract covering maternity, initially for 12 months, with the possibility of extension.

IOP Publishing’s Media Group consists of journalism, content management, advertising sales and production, product management, marketing, and business development. The Media Group produces the internationally renowned Physics World, in all its formats including print & digital magazines, website, special reports, webinars and podcasts, and also partners with many organisations for their media needs, including CERN and ESRF.

As Marketing Manager - Media, you will propose marketing strategies for products, to contribute to the delivery of Media Group strategic objectives. You will also be accountable for devising and implementing tactical marketing activities to deliver on these marketing plans, to budget, schedule, and meet agreed KPIs.

As the senior marketing role in the Media Group, you will be part of the Media management team, working closely with the Head of Media Group, Editor in Chief, Content & Product Lead, Business Development Manager and Group Advertising Manager, as well as other marketing teams throughout the business. 

About you:

Successful applicants should demonstrate the following:

• Experience in Media/B2B marketing, with in-depth knowledge of marketing concepts, channels and tactics;
• Knowledge of print, online and multimedia publishing would be ideal;
• Solid understanding of GDPR;
• Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to generate ideas and solutions;
• High-level communication and interpersonal skills in a variety of settings and styles, to manage multiple stakeholders, including external business relationships;
• Strong negotiation skills to be deployed when prioritising activity with sales, content and product management stakeholders;
• Excellent organization and time management skills;
• Experience/training in Continuous Improvement is an advantage.

We know it is unusual for someone to tick every box so if you don’t meet all the criteria, but demonstrate most of the skills and experience we are looking for, and have the enthusiasm to work with us, go ahead and apply.

We aim to review applications soon after they are received and will arrange interviews when there’s someone we’re keen to meet, therefore we may conduct interviews prior to the closing date and reserve the right to close the advert early.

Why work with us at IOP Publishing: 

Purpose: We are a world leader in the development of electronic publishing for the scientific community - working in the interests of science and scientists, we aim to maximise the impact of the research we publish; 

Culture: We offer a truly international culture with offices in Europe, Asia and the US and our reach is global. Our culture is the perfect blend of dedicated and intelligent professionalism, informal, friendly collaboration and authenticity with a social conscience.  

Financial benefits: A competitive salary, an excellent pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution), and a discretionary annual bonus scheme, a £200 stipend payment on completion of the probation period, and a range of other useful and cost-saving benefits available through our benefits platform; 

Health and Wellbeing: 33+ days holiday (including bank holidays), a 35-hour working week, life assurance, cycle-to-work scheme, dental insurance, health care cash plan, and a great positive working environment in our brand new office in central Bristol - modern airy and designed with all of our colleagues in mind – for work and social time; 

Flexibility: A flexible hybrid working environment to suit everyone’s needs. For this role the successful applicant can work from home the majority of the time and will only be required to work from the office approximately once per month.

And last but not least, did we mention that we are unique: IOP Publishing is central to the Institute of Physics, a not-for-profit society and we gift-aid all our profits to support science through the activities of the Institute.  

To apply, please submit your CV through our careers site. 

IOP Publishing is an equal-opportunity employer. Our goal is to ensure that diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) are built into our identity in a way that is natural and sustainable, visible through the work we produce, our company branding, our professional networks and the communities we serve and support, which includes our employees, talent communities and candidates. We particularly welcome applicants from under-represented backgrounds.